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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISSOLUTE, a. [L.]
1. Loose in behavior and morals; given to vice and dissipation; wanton; lewd; luxurious; debauched; not under the restraints of law; as a dissolute man; dissolute company.
2. Vicious; wanton; devoted to pleasure and dissipation; as a dissolute life.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin dissolutus, from past participle of dissolvere to loosen, dissolve Date: 14th century lacking restraint; especially marked by indulgence in things (as drink or promiscuous sex) deemed vices <the dissolute and degrading aspects of human nature — Wallace Fowlie> • dissolutely adverb • dissoluteness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. lax in morals; licentious. Derivatives: dissolutely adv. dissoluteness n. Etymology: ME f. L dissolutus past part. of dissolvere DISSOLVE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dissolute Dis"so*lute, a. [L. dissolutus, p. p. of dissolvere: cf. F. dissolu. See Dissolve.] 1. With nerves unstrung; weak. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. ``A wild and dissolute soldier.'' --Motley. Syn: Uncurbed; unbridled; disorderly; unrestrained; reckless; wild; wanton; vicious; lax; licentious; lewd; rakish; debauched; profligate.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is dissolute does not care at all about morals and lives in a way that is considered to be wicked and immoral. = degenerate ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Loose, licentious, lax, debauched, wanton, lewd, corrupt, profligate, rakish, depraved, dissipated, reprobate, abandoned, graceless, shameless, wild.

Moby Thesaurus

abandoned, amoral, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissipated, fast, free, free-living, gallant, gay, hedonistic, high-living, immoral, incontinent, intemperate, lax, libidinous, licentious, light, loose, morally polluted, overindulgent, perverted, polluted, profligate, raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reprobate, riotous, rotten, self-indulgent, slack, steeped in iniquity, tainted, unbridled, unprincipled, unrestrained, vice-corrupted, vitiated, wanton, warped, wayward, wild